Balthasar Behem Codex

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The Balthasar Behem Codex (Polish: Kodeks Baltazara Behema ) or Codex Picturatus is a manuscript written in German in 1505 by the Krakow city ​​clerk Balthasar Behem (* approx. 1460; † 1508) in Gothic letters , which describes the privileges and statutes of Krakow ( Jura municipalia - Wylkör der Stad arbitrariness, municipal law ) as well as the Krakow guilds and guilds .

The work, which is valued as a source for the everyday life of craftsmen and which is kept in the Jagiellonian Library in Krakow, also contains Latin texts and, above all, 27 sophisticated color illustrations. Page 246 v. Chr. for example shows the baker with the headline: Pistores - This is the briff and laws of the Becker czu Krokaw.

Presumably due to the death of the author, there is no text in the code on pages 276 to 300, but some illustrations, for example by ore cutters.

Literature / reprints

  • Balthasaris Behem Codex picturatus anno 1505, continens privilegia et plebiscita urbis Cracoviae . In: Archive for customers of Austrian historical sources 33 . 1865 (discussed by Ulrich Heyzmann).
  • Bruno Bucher (ed.): The old guild and traffic regulations of the city of Krakow. Based on Balthasar Behem's Codex Picturatus in the KK Jagellonische Bibliothek . Festschrift for the anniversary of the K. K. Oesterreichisches Museum for Art and Industry. Gerold, Vienna 1889.
  • Friedrich Winkler (Ed.): The Cracow Behaim Codex . With a legal historical study by Johann Werner Niemann . Deutscher Verein für Kunstwissenschaft, Berlin 1941 (With facsimile reproductions from the Behaim Codex).
  • Codex picturatus Balthasaris Behem . Facsimile of the manuscript 1505. Krajowa Agencja Wydawn, Varsoviae 1988.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German legal dictionary - DRW: Quellen-Faksimile . Retrieved June 7, 2011.
  2. ^ German legal dictionary - DRW: source facsimile (plate 14) . Retrieved June 7, 2011.
  3. ↑ Gerda Hagenau: Polish Theater and Drama , Böhlau, 1994, ISBN 3-205-98233-9 p. 188
  4. ↑ KrakauZftO. P. 1 . uni-heidelberg.de. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
  5. ↑ Balthasar Behem Codex - Cracow, 1505. The codex contains the privileges of the City of Cracow and the statutes of the Cracow guilds. It is illustrated with 27 miniatures representing the daily life of craftsmen and merchants. This one is the most precious monuments of Polish art of that time. (Illustration from page 246 v. Archivlink ( Memento from May 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) and Archivlink ( Memento from May 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )) - Archive link ( Memento from April 15, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from May 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ The old guild and traffic regulations of the city of Krakow: According to Balthasar Behem's Codex picturatus in kk Jagellonische Bibliothek, ed. by Bruno Bucher , Carl Gerold's son, Vienna, 1889. Online uni-heidelberg.de: Plate VS 31 with description p. 16
  8. ↑ KrakauZftO. P. 31 . adw.uni-heidelberg.de. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
  9. ↑ KrakauZftO. Plate 15 . adw.uni-heidelberg.de. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
  10. ↑ Archive link ( Memento from May 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

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